Learning Outcomes

Agriculture and Environment

Graduates of the Master of Agriculture and Environment program will:

1. Demonstrate expert theoretical knowledge in the relevant areas of science and agribusiness that underpin approaches and management in agriculture and environment.
2. Apply contemporary multidisciplinary and integrated knowledge of sustainability principles to complex agricultural and environmental systems of interwoven environmental, economic and social scenarios.
3. Critically evaluate the validity and quality of information sources in agriculture and environment and identify knowledge gaps.
4. Investigate, critically analyse and synthesise complex problems in economic, environmental and social contexts using evidence-based research in agricultural and environmental systems with strong personal autonomy and accountability.
5. Apply advanced research principles and skills in quantitative and/or qualitative analysis techniques to analyse problems with creativity and initiative and adapt research findings to novel contexts to create positive outcomes and change.
6. Resolve ethical dilemmas in topics such as food, soil and water security, to develop professional and ethical capacities for individual and group contexts.
7. Interpret research findings and methodologies to create and evaluate interventions for professional practice in agriculture and environment.
8. Communicate and translate research findings and concepts on topics relating to agriculture and environment from practice to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
9. Work effectively and responsibly in an individual context and within diverse interdisciplinary teams.

Graduates of the Graduate Diploma of Agriculture and Environment program will:

1. Demonstrate advanced theoretical knowledge in the relevant areas of science and agribusiness that underpin approaches and management in agriculture and environment.
2. Apply contemporary multidisciplinary and integrated knowledge of sustainability principles to complex agricultural and environmental systems of interwoven environmental, economic and social scenarios.
3. Critically evaluate the validity and quality of information sources in agriculture and environment and identify knowledge gaps.
4. Resolve ethical dilemmas in topics such as food, soil and water security, to develop professional and ethical capacities for individual and group contexts.
5. Interpret research findings and methodologies to create and evaluate interventions for professional practice in agriculture and environment.
6. Communicate and translate research findings and concepts on topics relating to agriculture and environment from practice to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
7. Work effectively and responsibly in an individual context and within diverse interdisciplinary teams.

Graduates of the Graduate Certificate of Agriculture and Environment program will:

1. Demonstrate advanced theoretical knowledge in the relevant areas of science and agribusiness that underpin approaches and management in agriculture and environment.
2. Apply contemporary multidisciplinary and integrated knowledge of sustainability principles to complex agricultural and environmental systems of interwoven environmental, economic and social scenarios.
3. Critically evaluate the validity and quality of information sources in agriculture and environment and identify knowledge gaps.
4. Resolve ethical dilemmas in topics such as food, soil and water security, to develop professional and ethical capacities for individual and group contexts.
5. Interpret research findings and methodologies to create and evaluate interventions for professional practice in agriculture and environment.
6. Communicate and translate research findings and concepts on topics relating to agriculture and environment from practice to specialist and non-specialist audiences.